Health Assessment

Just tip up tip of nose and use pen light. Making contact can be very uncomfortable.

Can have holes from cocain, nasal steroids. When administering nasal spray, spray into opposit nostril.

Turbinates: Can be swollen, red, and have discharge. If pallor/cyanosis think allergies.

Under the tongue.

Long, short, bifurcated. May also have partial or all removed to treat sleep apnea.

Mucosa lined inner cheek.

~5.

CN-1.

Cobbled nodules, boney and tumor-like along the hard palate. Unusual, but not necessarily cause for alarm unless trauma produces lesions.

Puff through mouth, object should pop out.

Dryness and cracking at corners of mouth.

White, velvety patches along mucous membranes of mouth. Will bleed if abraded.